Whats Wrong in Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections?
Doctors are only half as likely to prescribe recommended drugs for female urinary tract infections as they were ten years ago. Physicians write approximately 2.5 million prescriptions for the infections each year, yet guidelines for the treatment of the condition have not changed since the early 1990s. A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that in 1989, 48% of doctors were following the guidelines, compared to only 24% in 1998. In another study, hospitalized patients whose urine test results in the patient record indicated that they had a urinary tract infection on admission for some other problem, most often still had the infection when discharged. U.S. AIDS cases increased by 8% in 2001 according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The figures include 42,000 new AIDS cases reported, compared to 38,864 new cases in 2000. The increase is not a surprise to Public Health officials who attribute the rise to public perception of AIDS being a ma
